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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (also Paczyna) : unflattering nickname from paczyna ‘clod’, ‘brickbat’, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from the same word in the sense ‘oar’, ‘rudder’.

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